| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 9-Jun-2013 Southbank Centre: Purcell Room | The art of fear, or the fear of art? The Rest is Noise with Karim Said |
 This Sunday, pianist Karim Said returned to the Southbank Centre to put Arnold Schoenberg under the microscope for a third and last time. Performing as part of the International Piano Series 2012/13 and the cataclysmic Rest is Noise festival, Said’s concerts have focused on the genesis of the Second Viennese School. Each event included an introductory talk with Sara Mohr-Pietsch where the musical works were discussed in the context of Alex Ross’ award-winning book The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (2007).Read full review... | |
| 4-May-2013 Eyebeam | John Cage's HPSCHD: Living art at Eyebeam in NYC |
 This past Saturday, I spent five hours in a great big room with a cold concrete floor that was brimming from end to end with sounds and images and people. Three of the four walls, as well as a screen hanging from the ceiling and winding in an angle above, were morphing and spinning ceaselessly with celestial and kaleidoscopic images that were projected from the row of “Lightcircus” artists along the fourth wall.Read full review... | |
| 12-Apr-2013 Sage: Hall Two | Northern Sinfonia Late Mix: Contemporary America |
 On Thursday night, I reviewed the vast forces of National Youth Orchestra, playing big colourful works by European exiles in 1930s America. The following night, I was back at The Sage Gateshead to hear Northern Sinfonia’s clever little coda to this concert, performing contemporary American music as part of their Late Mix series, the huge orchestra and big tunes replaced by intricate chamber music that pushes the definition of music to its limits.
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| 14-Mar-2013 Barbican Centre: Art Gallery | Wandering around Cage: Margaret Leng Tan plays Four Walls in the Barbican Art Gallery |
 While you wouldn’t have guessed from her performance, Margaret Leng Tan did not look happy before she played John Cage’s Four Walls in the Barbican Centre’s Art Gallery this Thursday. The placement of the grand piano within the gallery’s exhibition The Bride and the Bachelors, nestled amongst visual artworks by Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, did well on aesthetics but gained nul points acoustically, with the lid positioned such as to point the sound straight into a massive granite pillar.Read full review... | |
